Importance of using communication in confronting healthy risks risk communication during pandemics : Corona virus as a model

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This study aims at identifying the different strategies applied by Algeria since the appearance of Covid 19 and its effectiveness in awareness and sensibilization.

So, the risk communication is based on the use of a set of techniques and strategies in order to confront the critical situation witnessed by any country such as Humanitarian crises, natural calamities and pandemics, so, it is an important factor in risk management since it is used in different stages like the stage of risk evaluation and management.

Algeria, like other countries of the world used strategies in order to confront covid19 and to reduce its risks, and the most frequenc strategy: the preventive advocacy which concentrates, on one since on public communication campaigns that sensibilize about the risks of this pandemic as well as its ways of propagation and the preventive ways.

On the other side, this strategy concentrates on the necessity of the positive participation of individuals in the reduction of risks and this through providing them with necessary information and the required explanations because the problem doesn't stop in giving the daily number of contaminated cases and deaths